Midterm Exam

1. Describe the video in a sentence or two.
• This video is a lightly edited background video to go on a website about personal creative work. The video intended to paint the creator of the website as a father, which to most people implies that he’s a caring and loving person that they should feel comfortable around.
2. What is your first reaction to the video— how does it make you feel?
• My first reaction to this video was confusion… I expected an actual short film when walking into the classroom, but this video works. This video makes me feel at ease, due to the calm setting and the playful kid doing things a kid would do.
3. Identify 3 emotions that you think the video was intended to elicit.
• This video was intended to elicit a feeling of comfort, welcoming, and homeliness.
4. Do you think those emotions were successfully conveyed?
• I think that these emotions were successfully conveyed, because they would definitely be able to affect one in such a way that would make one feel comfortable with the blog and the idea of the creator of the blog being a father and a caring man.
5. What aspects of the video worked to elicit the elements you defined (Describe?)
• Some aspects of the video that worked together to make the viewer feel comfortable and welcome would be the calm setting of the beach without people, just serene waves and flocks of birds… the whole scene is welcoming. The music also helps bring some emotion into the video, and it helps tell the viewer to feel positive, calm emotions. The final element bringing this all together would be the innocent little boy. When people think of children, they usually feel joyful because they relate those children to the children that they love. This is exactly what occurs in this video… the people watching the video would be told to feel positive by all of the elements in this video, but most prominently the little boy, with whom they relate their loved ones to.